Subscribe to Yahoo Sports NBA on YouTube<\/a>].<\/p>\nWilliams led Oklahoma City with a season-high 26 points and his first double-double of the 2025-26 campaign. He collected 10 assists to go with his five rebounds and was one of three Thunder players to turn in 20-point games.<\/p>\n
The others were second-year guard Ajay Mitchell and veteran wing Kenrich Williams. Mitchell poured in 23 points and Williams chipped in 21 off the bench, in part thanks to his 3-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
Kenrich Williams hit a go-ahead 3 from the left wing to pull Oklahoma City ahead 115-114 with 1:07 remaining. The Thunder, who came into the night leading the NBA in defensive rating, put a bow on their head-turning win with two key stops.<\/p>\n
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Lu Dort stole a pass from Grizzlies two-time All-Star forward Jaren Jackson Jr., who then immediately fouled Dort, resulting in a pair of Thunder free throws.<\/p>\n
Memphis center Jock Landale turned an offensive rebound into a second-chance hook shot that made it a one-point game again.<\/p>\n
On the Grizzlies’ final possession, Thunder guard Alex Caruso put the clamps on rookie guard Cedric Coward.<\/p>\n
With no timeouts left, seemingly nowhere to go with the ball and the clock ticking after he had already picked up his dribble, last year’s No. 11 overall pick pivoted repeatedly before putting up a shot Caruso got a piece of.<\/p>\n
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Jaren Jackson Jr. paced the Grizzlies with 23 points. Cam Spencer delivered 11 assists. And GG Jackson added 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting off the bench.<\/p>\n
Memphis committed 17 turnovers and went nearly three minutes of game time without a point late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the final 3 1\/2 minutes of Friday night’s game in Memphis, the Oklahoma City Thunder outscored the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[5577,328,7,8675,3522,366,839,1265,294,178,364,496,3692,5760,293,177,4070,6,2549,475,179,209,181],"class_list":["post-527162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-ajay-mitchell","tag-alex-caruso","tag-basketball","tag-cam-spencer","tag-cedric-coward","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-dort","tag-gg-jackson","tag-grizzlies","tag-ja-morant","tag-jalen-williams","tag-jaren-jackson-jr","tag-jock-landale","tag-kenrich-williams","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-league-pass","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-the-grizzlies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115871255353539334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}